I think BenC has the market pretty well established for what the Sox are willing to pay. Someone may go three years plus an option. Ben sees the system producing what we need. I would like to see them bring in AJ or Buck or Navarro. Talk seems to be Navaro may be as expensive as Salty. I think AJ will share the catching duties with Ross.

When your second best option is the Twins you know your negotiating position is not good. As much as I hate to see it, we may still get him back in a 2 year deal.

How do you know that the Twins are the only other team? Just because you havent heard from other teams doesnt mean theres not talks going on. You dont like Salty, but lets try and realize that you also, like all of us, dont know everything that goes on behind the scenes. Just because Cafardo or whoever doesnt reports about it, doesnt mean theres nothing going on.

Salty seems to have fallen out of favor somehow, starting with his benching in the Series.

And that is how J F won the W S ........ SALTY's glove & poor arm could not be carried any longer .... St-Louis had that figured to a "T" ........

Yes Salty took over when Ross went down because lavarnway wasnt good enough in the eyes of the organization. In that time Salty raised his BA by 40points, was praised by the pitchers and coaches. By the time the playoffs were here it was obvious they overused Salty. He was spent and it affected his performance, so the went with the fresh Ross.

Whats more revealing is that they would rather go with Salty against LHP than Lavarnway.

Salty seems to have fallen out of favor somehow, starting with his benching in the Series.

And that is how J F won the W S ........ SALTY's glove & poor arm could not be carried any longer .... St-Louis had that figured to a "T" ........

Yes Salty took over when Ross went down because lavarnway wasnt good enough in the eyes of the organization. In that time Salty raised his BA by 40points, was praised by the pitchers and coaches. By the time the playoffs were here it was obvious they overused Salty. He was spent and it affected his performance, so the went with the fresh Ross.

Whats more revealing is that they would rather go with Salty against LHP than Lavarnway.

How can you be spent during the playoffs & W S ?????? Plenty of down time in between games ......

GONE .......I'm thinking he is a Twin by tomorrow .... Hope this doesn't come back to haunt us next year ...

Hey pal,

I could possibly see Salty getting more years from another team at this point and he may be smart to jump if it happens because his stock may never be this high again.

Tough call for any team, Salty finally had more well rounded offensive numbers like we all hoped for but the fact we leaned on Ross in the PS to finish the job and Salty's inconsistant arm could still leave a lot of teams skeptical on money and length of contract. Salty may have had a better year than Ruiz or even McCann but it was obvious past experience and consistancy still means more at this level.

I would prefer Lavarnway over Navarro or Pierzinski. I guess it's time to give him a shot. Could the world series champs start the season with rookies at SS, CF and C ?

I would also prefer Lavarnway. The Sox have never given him a fair shot at the job, and I think thats a mistake. His defense will improve with regular play, just as Salty's pretty horrendous defense improved to the point where he achieved mediocrity. Will he succeed? No one knows for sure, but I would take that gamble.